If the wheels can be recovered and still have the TPMS system installed they can be traced back to the car that they came off of. Here is a video of a dealership that had some special edition wheels stolen and recovered. TLDW. The wheels were part of a limited edition package. Shortly after being stolen there were…

This is the way much of anything is enforced.  Look at driving.  There isn’t a cop in every location which would allow for them to monitor the driving speed of every car at every time.  Instead they do “random audits” by picking a particular road at a particular time and only monitor those cars.

I think the market is also starting to stabilize from the massive growths we have seen coming out of the recession. I believe a lot of that growth was from pent up demand coming out of the recession.

You can also break through at Laguna Seca. Here is the trick I used to use.

This reminds me of the Cor-maro that was used for testing the C5 chassis. They fitted a C5 chassis under a Camaro body which allowed for real world testing without using a camouflaged test vehicle. It also allowed suppliers to do testing without seeing the final C5 design.

I grew up riding in an ‘83, but the design greatly improved starting in ‘85.

I completely agree. In terms of 4th gen F-bodies the Camaro is better from ‘93-’97 while the Firebird (RIP) was better in ‘98-’02.

I agree with nearly everything you have said, but I wanted to add one thing. With the recent creation of more and more different streaming services with an increase in exclusive content and exclusive rights you are again starting to see an uptick in piracy. Taking away ease of access and increasing the cost by…

There are a few similarities beyond the basic shape which defines the class of vehicle. From the angles you provided here is what I see. There is a chrome piece under the side mirror, but the one on the Lincoln doesn’t go as far forward. The roof line in the back extends into a spoiler which hangs over the back glass…

The front bumper does look a bit large, but it seems to pay homage to the bumper on the original Syclone.

GMC exists as the Buick branch of trucks.  It allows the Buick/Cadillac dealerships that don’t sell Chevrolet to still sell trucks.

The Acadia, while still a 3-row vehicle, is essentially now a class size smaller than the Traverse and Buick.

The clear coat itself is not $60,000 per gallon. It’s an additive that goes into the clear coat that costs that much. The additive itself is probably added in ppm levels to the clear coat. Each ppm of additive added to the clear coat will add approximately $0.06 to the per gallon cost of the clear coat. That being…

It is likely more expensive to manufacture and is in the more expensive models. Putting it in the models least likely to use it will give them more time to better optimize the design and manufacturing and work out any other unforeseen “bugs” before introducing to full time work duty.

Considering that this is limited to the Denali and AT4 trim levels I doubt there will be many fleet/commercial sales of this bed.  I imagine this is one of those trickle down technologies that we will eventually see in more trim levels as the manufacturing costs go down and the material properties are further refined.

It doesn’t look like the truck bed uses a clearcoat for an exposed weave look, but there is truth that UV radation can degrade carbon fiber. In fact, when the C6 ZR1 was released nearly 10 years ago the fact that the car had an exposed weave on external panels was a technical marvel in of itself. The UV resistant…

Torque is not power. Power by definition is the rate of doing work. You can also look at it as what rate is energy being consumed.  That means power has a time component. Torque on the other hand is a measurement of the rotational force on the object.  There is no time component in torque.  In other words, torque is…

I live in the east end near Worthington Hills and work in Rubbertown. However, while there are no bike lanes where I live, there are plenty of bikers in their spandex looking outfits that go out in large groups and do 15-20 mph in 45 mph zones mixed in with semi-trucks. They also tend to lane split at the lights to…

One time when I was younger my dad accidentally discovered that the key fob for the family van could also lock and unlock another van identical to ours in the same parking lot.

I guess turning I-64 into surface streets would allow our mayor to create more bike lanes...